Use kzalloc() to allocate new zeroed out msg node instead of
memsetting a node allocated with kmalloc().
Signed-off-by: Prathu Baronia <prathubaronia2011@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index a92af08e7864..579ecb4ee4d2 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -2575,12 +2575,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_disable_notify);
/* Create a new message. */
struct vhost_msg_node *vhost_new_msg(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, int type)
{
- struct vhost_msg_node *node = kmalloc(sizeof *node, GFP_KERNEL);
+ /* Make sure all padding within the structure is initialized. */
+ struct vhost_msg_node *node = kzalloc(sizeof(*node), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!node)
return NULL;
- /* Make sure all padding within the structure is initialized. */
- memset(&node->msg, 0, sizeof node->msg);
node->vq = vq;
node->msg.type = type;
return node;
base-commit: 4d6d4c7f541d7027beed4fb86eb2c451bd8d6fff
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2.34.1
